Windows 10: Will the "Unicode UTF-8" Region Setting Crash Windows 10/11?

I have the "Unicode UTF-8" region setting. Will the "Unicode UTF-8" region setting crash Windows 10/11?

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Unicode Symbols/ Greek Letters in Filename -UTF-8 Language settings

Hi Microsoft community,

I'm working on a project to integrate some international users (Greek) into our existing services. I'm looking for more information/suggestions about the "Use UTF-8 for worldwide language support." option within Windows 10.

This option is found under Control Panel -> Change time, date or Number formats -> Region -> Change System locale

We have deployed laptops to them that have been appropriately localised to display in Greek with the correct keyboard setup.

I'm having an issue with File names shared by external Greek businesses. The files are displaying incorrectly within File Explorer, Onedrive and SPO.

This only happens when "Use UTF-8 for worldwide language support" is enabled.

With this setting disabled, the filenames display correctly in Greek. Unfortunately, two of their business apps require UTF-8 to be enabled; otherwise, the text layers have a similar issue where they do not display the correct characters.

I understand Unicode vs UTF most likely causes this. Is there anything I can do to administrate around this for them or apply UTF-8 to specific applications?

Many Thanks

Sam

 

Microsoft Rebrand Unicode to UTF-16 LE in NotePad Windows 10 2004

Microsoft did the right thing. It should have been done a long time ago.

The problem with using "Unicode" to specify a file encoding is that is doesn't specify a file encoding. The purpose of Unicode was to assign values or codepoints to characters. It says nothing about how those values will be encoded in a file or storage media. Over the years there have been quite a few of these encodings. UCS-2, UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 are all Unicode. All except UTF-8 come in both LE and BE varieties. And files may or may not include a BOM or Byte Order Mark that specifies this. So when you see "Unicode" specified as an encoding the question arises, Which one is it?

The encodings shown in the Save as dialog do away with the vague "Unicode" specification and makes it explicit.

 

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Thanks for your reply. I have already checked the "Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" option but the issue still persists.